CARTA - Cube Analysis and Rendering Tool for Astronomy

Note

v4.1 is a maintenance release to address core library update and critical bugs. No new feature or feature enhancement is included.

CARTA User Manual for v4.1.0

• Introduction
  • CARTA development scope
  • Client-Server architecture
  • Codebase and releases
  • Getting help
  • Contributors
  • Software citation
  • Acknowledgment
  • Copyright and license
• Installation and configuration
  • Site Deployment Mode
  • User Deployment Mode
    • Installation via package managers
    • Installation of the stand-alone application (direct download)
  • How to run CARTA?
    • Site Deployment Mode: connecting CARTA
    • User Deployment Mode: running CARTA on a remote server
    • User Deployment Mode: running CARTA on a local computer
  • CARTA initialization flags
  • Browser options
  • Log and configuration files
  • Installation of fits2idia (converting FITS to HDF5-IDIA)
    • Installation via package managers
    • Other installation methods
  • Troubleshooting
• Graphical user interface
  • Components
  • Quick start
    • Image view interactions
    • Region of interest or image annotation object interactions
    • Cursor update
    • Chart interactions
  • Configuring the layout
    • Resizing a widget
    • Relocating a tab as a new docked widget
    • Relocating a tab to share space with other docked widget
    • Maximizing and restoring a widget
    • Detaching and attaching a widget
    • Creating a widget as a floating widget or as a docked widget
    • Light and dark themes
    • Custom layout, save, and restore
  • User preferences
  • Mouse interactions with images
    • Zooming an image
    • Panning an image
  • Mouse interactions with region of interest
    • Region creation
    • Region selection and modification
  • Mouse interactions with charts
    • Zooming a chart
    • Panning a chart
    • Resetting range
  • Getting help
  • Controls and shortcuts
• Image cube visualization
  • Server-side status and session resume
  • File Browser
    • HDF5 (IDIA schema) image support
    • Forming a Stokes hypercube
    • Loading images with the Lattice Expression Language (LEL)
    • Loading a complex-valued image
    • Loading a Position-Velocity (PV) image
    • Loading a swapped-axes image cube
  • Image viewer
    • Single-panel view and multi-panel view
    • Raster rendering
    • Contour rendering
    • Vector field rendering
    • Matching images spatially and spectrally
    • Changing image field of view
    • Configuring an image plot for presentation
  • Animator
• Image cube analysis tools
  • File Header
  • Region of interest
    • Shared region with conserved solid angle
    • Shared line/polyline region with conserved angular length
    • Shared region management
    • Analytics with shared regions
    • Region import and export
  • Image annotation
  • Spatial Profiler
  • Spectral Profiler
  • Moment Map Generator
  • Position-Velocity (PV) Generator
    • Production mode
    • Preview mode
  • Image fitting
  • Profile fitting
  • Profile smoothing
  • Spectral Line Query
  • Stokes Analysis Widget
  • Statistics Widget
  • Histogram Widget
  • Distance Measurement Tool
  • Cursor Info Widget
  • Catalog Widget and Online Catalog Query Dialog
  • Log Widget
• Catalog visualization
  • Catalog filtering
  • Catalog image overlay
  • Catalog 2D Scatter Plot
  • Catalog Histogram Plot
  • Linked catalog visualization
• Workspace
  • Workspace saving and restoring
  • Workspace sharing (experimental; carta-controller-only feature)
• Appendix A: version history
  • Version 4.1
  • Version 4.0
  • Version 3.0
  • Version 2.0
  • Version 1.4
  • Version 1.3.1
  • Version 1.3
  • Version 1.2.2
  • Version 1.2.1
  • Version 1.2
  • Version 1.1
  • Version 1.0.1
  • Version 1.0
• Appendix B: known issues
• Appendix C: development log
  • v4.0 -> v4.1
  • v3.0 -> v4.0
  • v2.0 -> v3.0
  • v1.4 -> v2.0
  • v1.3 -> v1.4
  • v1.2 -> v1.3
  • v1.1 -> v1.2
  • v1.0 -> v1.1
• Appendix D: preferences schema
  • Preferences
• Appendix E: JavaScript code snippets